24/10/2026 Bertus Preller Arrears, Attorney and client costs, Civil contempt South Africa, Contempt of Court, Contempt of court maintenance, Divorce, Divorce settlement agreement, Fakie test, Maintenance, Maintenance court jurisdiction to vary High Court orders, Maintenance order enforcement, Maintenance order variation, Medical incapacity, Post-divorce maintenance enforcement, Rehabilitative maintenance, Self-help, Spousal Maintenance, Suspended committal, Unaffordability defence, Unilateral reduction of maintenance, Vindicating court authority Arrear Maintenance, Attorney and Client Costs, Cloete J, consent paper, contempt of court, D.O v M.E, divorce order, enforcement of maintenance, evidential burden, financial disclosure, HEG Consulting v Siegwart, LAN v OR Tambo Airport, Maintenance Act 99 of 1998, maintenance court jurisdiction, Maintenance Order, MM v MF, non-encumbrance clause, rehabilitative maintenance, Secretary of the Judicial Commission v Zuma, section 6(2) jurisdiction, self-help, spousal maintenance South Africa, SS v VVS, Suspended Sentence, variation of maintenance, Western Cape High Court, wilful and mala fide, writ of execution maintenance, ZAWCHC 624 Self-Help Is Not a Defence: Ex-Husband Held in Contempt for Flouting Maintenance Order in D.O v M.E (6955/2018) [2026] ZAWCHC 624 (21 October 2026). This case concerns a former husband who, for the better part of seven years, paid his ex-wife’s court-ordered rehabilitative maintenance when and in the amount he chose, pleaded poverty and… READ MORE